Oneida Lake

Oswego - New York


  • 217 catches

  • 2K+ followers

  • 255 spots

One of the most intensively studied and managed lakes in the nation. Widely acknowledged as the premier Walleye lake in the Northeast. Smallmouth fishing is fantastic. Good numbers of perch, Crappie, Bluegill and bullhead. 51,100 acres.

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Oneida Lake Fishing Reports

Recently shared catches and fishing spots

  1. Andrew Benbenek
    - Oneida Lake

    Details: 3 lb. 5 oz. Largemouth Bass with a drop shot jacket crosstail shad

    1. Sheron K. Brown Sr 0
      Nice fish! Are you fishing the open next week?
  2. Andrew Benbenek
    - Oneida Lake

    Details: 4 lb. Largemouth Bass with a storm stashing top walker

  3. Tim Crowley
    - Oneida Lake

    Caught my first couple of Freshwater Drum ever today. They fight like freight trains and also look like bass sometimes while fighting them.

    Freshwater Drum with a Swimbait

    1. Arthur Huttemeyer Sr. 0
      I want to catch one some day. I have caught big Black Drum.
    2. Tim Crowley 0
      They fight real hard like red drum
    3. Arthur Huttemeyer Sr. 0
      cool fish how do they fight? Anything like the saltwater version?
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  4. Tim Crowley
    - Oneida Lake

    Another day of fantastic fishing in upstate NY! 53 bass, 3 drum, 2 pickerel, 3 walleye, couple rock bass and bluegills. Ten biggest bass averaged over 18” each day.

    Smallmouth Bass with a Swimbait

  5. Tim Crowley
    - Oneida Lake

    Killing the bass, rock bass, pickerel, and even some catfish and blue gills in NY. We caught more than 50 bass over three pounds.

    Smallmouth Bass

    1. Tim Crowley 0
      Thank you, hard to get good pictures in a 9 1/2 foot kayak. Much easier in my 21’ Nitro.
    2. Capt Morris Campbell 0
      awesome Smallmouth pics Tim!! Nice work
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  6. NJ Squatch
    - Oneida Lake

    A group of jerzey googans got a south shore rental and hit the lake hard fishing 32 out of 60 hours this past weekend. I got my first iced eyeball Friday night. ...more Caught 2 keepers, a dozen hotdogs, and some football jumbo perch.

    Walleye

    1. NJ Squatch 0
      Our holes were infested with the hotdog sized walleyes.
    2. Christopher Pereira 0
      we should've brought them up to some NJ lakes and stocked them! hahaha
    3. Arthur Huttemeyer Sr. 0
      That is a real Fingerling
    4. Jimbo Harwood 0
      does sound like a Blast!!!
    5. Jimbo Harwood 0
      Congrats guys 👍🎣🍻
    6. Pete Lyden 0
      sounds like a blast!!!
    7. Christopher Pereira 0
      burbot
    8. Robert Coleman 0
      Awesome Squatch! Great pics brother! 👍👍👍👍
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  7. Christopher Pereira
    - Oneida Lake

    I only landed one keeper walleye, but also plenty of big perch and each of my buddies had 1-2 keepers as well so all in all it was a decent fishing trip and a great ...more time otherwise!

    Walleye with a Everything

    1. Jimbo Harwood 0
      Hell yeah!! 👍
    2. Christopher Pereira 0
      cool! but i'm back in jersey now haha
    3. Pete Garm 0
      Dude you're in my zone!
    4. Christopher Pereira 0
      Hell yeah
    5. Robert Coleman 0
      That's awesome Chris! Good times! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  8. Christopher Pereira
    - Oneida Lake

    I ended up landing dozens of walleye over the weekend, despite the wind and rain but this was the only one on the jig and unfortunately most of the eyes were shorts ...more 😢

    Walleye with a Tungsten jig

    1. Robert Coleman 0
      Lmao Niiiiiiice! 👍👍👍👍
    2. Christopher Pereira 0
      Funny story, our friend went up to the house to get hotdogs and buns. Gave us 8 dogs and only 4 buns... so we photoshopped a pic of me holding a big burbot and ...more sent it to them saying i used the extrahotdogs as bait to catch it 😂 we had them fooled all day 🤣🤣
    3. Robert Coleman 0
      Put him in a hot dog bun, 2 bites.... in your belly! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍
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  9. Christopher Pereira
    - Oneida Lake

    We got to oneida pretty late friday, but couldn’t wait and got out after the walleye. As it got dark my deadstick next to me jigging (rigged on my homemade jawjacker) ...more pops off and i iced my first ever walleye on hardwater 👍👍

    Walleye with a Homemade jaw jacker

    1. Christopher Pereira 0
      Make them, easy with pvc pipe
    2. Jimbo Harwood 0
      Thats awesome! Guna have to try the jawjacker lol 🎣🍻
    3. Christopher Pereira 0
      Thanks buddy
    4. Robert Coleman 0
      Sweeeeeeeet! Congrats bro! 👊👍👍👍👍
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  10. Christopher Pereira
    - Oneida Lake

    Probably ended the ice fishing season with an upstate ny group trip to target walleye. I’ve never pulled one through the ice, but that changed this weekend. We ...more jigged up some blimpy perch in the process too!

    Yellow Perch with a Johnson Thinfisher Blade Baits

    1. Christopher Pereira 0
      thanks
    2. Melissa Norris 0
      Great catch!😀😁
    3. Josh Sommerville 0
      Awesome! Nice one Chris👊
    4. Bryan Harper 0
      Nice🎣👍
    5. Christopher Pereira 0
      i figured, if i could catch jumbo perch while targeting walleye, why the hell not haha.... the perch were bigger than the walleye we were catching anyway HAHA
    6. Mike _ 0
      nice perch and so fun catching em on blades
    7. Christopher Pereira 0
      Thanks
    8. Robert Coleman 0
      He's a nice chunk! 👍👍👍👍👍
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